Law Career Counselor
Listed on 2026-09-22
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Education / Teaching
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HR/Recruitment
Details
Open Date 09/18/2026
Requisition Number PRN
46254B
Job Title Graduate Student Coord III
Working Title Law Career Counselor
Career Progression Track E
Track Level
FLSA Code Professional
Patient Sensitive Job Code? No
Standard Hours per Week 30 hours average a week
Full Time or Part Time? Full Time
Shift Day
Work Schedule Summary
This is a 0.75 FTE position, around 30 hrs per week. Work schedule could include evenings, and weekends.
VP Area Academic Affairs
Department 00096 - College of Law
- Dean
Location Campus
City Salt Lake City, UT
Type of Recruitment External Posting
Pay Rate Range $75,000 - $80,000
Close Date 12/31/2026
Priority Review Date (Note
- Posting may close at any time)
Job Summary
The S.J. Quinney College of Law is a top-ranked public law school with a national reputation for academic excellence, student success, and strong employment and bar-passage outcomes. The College of Law seeks a motivated and student-centered Career Coach to help JD students identify and pursue meaningful employment opportunities and successfully transition into the legal profession.
Working within the Career Development Office ( CDO ), the Career Coach will provide individualized career advising, job-search support, and professional development programming tailored to the legal employment market. The position will advise students across all three years of law school, with particular responsibility for helping graduating students and recent graduates secure post-graduate employment.
The Career Coach will help students evaluate legal and law-related career paths, develop effective application materials, prepare for interviews, build professional networks, and navigate the recruitment practices and timelines associated with different legal sectors. The position will also work closely with colleagues, faculty, alumni, and employers to identify opportunities and improve student employment outcomes.
The successful candidate will have a strong understanding of law school and a practical understanding of the legal profession and legal employment market. The ideal candidate will be an effective advisor and communicator who can build trust with students, provide candid and constructive guidance, and work proactively with students at different stages of career readiness.
Responsibilities
Individual Career Advising:
Maintain an assigned student caseload and provide individualized advising on career goals, practice-area interests, employment options, and job-search strategy.
Employment Planning:
Help students develop and carry out individualized employment plans, including appropriate timelines, target employers, networking strategies, and follow-up activities.
Application Materials:
Review and provide substantive feedback on legal resumes, cover letters, writing samples, professional biographies, and other employment materials.
Interview Preparation:
Conduct mock interviews and prepare students for screening interviews, callback interviews, judicial interviews, and other legal hiring processes.
Legal Career Guidance:
Advise students on employment pathways in private practice, government, public interest organizations, judicial clerkships, business, compliance, and other JD-advantage settings.
Recruitment and Job-Search Support:
Help students navigate on-campus interviewing, employer recruitment programs, job fairs, direct applications, networking-based searches, and other hiring processes.
Experiential Opportunities:
Assist students in identifying summer employment, internships, judicial externships, public interest opportunities, and other experiences that strengthen their qualifications for post-graduate employment.
Graduating Student and Graduate Support:
Provide intensive outreach and job-search assistance to graduating students and recent graduates who are seeking employment, including support during the period following graduation and the bar examination.
Career Programming:
Develop and deliver workshops, panels, and other programs addressing legal employment markets, recruitment timelines, networking, interviewing, professional identity, and career readiness.
Employer and Alumni Engagement:
Build and maintain relationships with legal employers, alumni, faculty, and other professional contacts to identify employment opportunities, strengthen referral networks, and connect students with relevant practitioners.
Employment Outcomes:
Contribute to the College’s employment-outcomes strategy by monitoring student progress, identifying students who need additional…
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